Debbie Shore's Sewing Room Secrets: Essential Skills for Dressmakers: Top tips and techniques for successful sewing

by Debbie Shore

Overview

Packed with key skills and friendly know-how, this essential guide is ideal for anyone taking their first steps into dressmaking

The latest title in Debbie Shore's Sewing Room Secrets series, this essential guide is packed with key skills and friendly know-how and is ideal for anyone taking their first steps into dressmaking. It covers the important basics such as: how to read any pattern; how to adapt and adjust a pattern; how to choose, mark and cut fabric; how to add zips, pockets, collars and buttons; how to adapt old, misshapen or over-sized garments, and how to do some basic mending - all shown step by step.

This book is a toolkit designed to equip you with all the dressmaking skills you need; it contains 10 inventive projects for you to try your hand at using your pre-loved clothes, and gives you all the knowledge you need to make your own clothes from scratch using the pattern of your choice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781782217473
Publisher:	Search Press
Publication date:	03/09/2021
Series:	DEBBIE SHORE'S SEWING ROOM SECRETS
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	7.90(w) x 10.10(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Debbie Shore is a bestselling and award-winning author. She began her career as a children's television presenter and since then has appeared regularly as an actress in various popular dramas and as a presenter on shopping channels. Debbie has developed her own range of fabrics, designed her own patterns, writes for several popular sewing magazine and has written over 20 books for Search Press with several more underway. She is the winner of Craft Influencer of the Year 2020 in the Craft Business Awards, and Social Media Influencer of the Year 2019 in the British Sewing Awards.

Debbie has over 215,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel, which has over 28 million views. In 2018, Debbie launched her Half Yard Sewing Club, a monthly subscription service based on the megaselling Half Yard(TM) series, and won the 2019 IPG Digital Publishing Award. For more details about the club visit www.halfyardsewingclub.com.

Debbie lives in Lincolnshire. Visit her website www.debbieshoresewing.com.

Table of Contents

About This Book 5

About Me 6

My Quick Tips 7

Dressmaking Essentials 8

Tools & equipment 9

Fabrics 20

Fabric terminology 23

Interfacing 24

Threads 25

Dressmaking Know-How 26

Pressing or ironing? 27

Measuring yourself 28

Choosing a pattern 31

Understanding pattern symbols 32

Cutting out your pattern 34

Transferring pattern symbols 36

Cutting fabric 38

Making a toile 39

Machine stitches 40

Special stitches 42

Darts 43

Seams 44

Hems 46

Project Kimono Jacket 48

Bindings 50

Closures 52

Project Tunic Sweater Dress 60

Pockets 62

Project Shirt Skirt 64

Project Old to New Joggers 66

Shirring 70

Sewing or elastic 71

Project Sweater Skirt 72

Project Wrap Skirt 74

Project Circle Skirt 76

Project Off-the-Shoulder Top 78

Appliqué 80

Project Child's Shirt Dress and Headband 82

Project Batwing Dress 84

Make it fit 88

Mend it 92

Index 96